With this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a higher school dropout and today a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life over the streets and exactly how he overcame trauma and addiction to uncover the truth about who he is.

If I may just help to make it to another minute…i quickly might have an opportunity to live; I would have an opportunity to end up being something a lot more than just a attempting crackhead.

From your Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the about From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up.

Discontinued by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly discovered himself in the foster-care system along with his two brothers, take off from all they had known. Ultimately the children landed in the house of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love behaviour quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout everything, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the thoughts of every family member. Struggling with all that had occurred, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive routine of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending greater than a decade on / off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he understood he would die unless he converted his life around.

Within this heart-warming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found out his in the past into the group of his Indigenous lifestyle and family.

An eloquent exploration of the influence of prejudice and racism, Through the Ashes is, in the end, about how exactly love and support might help us find happiness regardless of the odds.